Solomon

May 10th, 2018 by Zen

Just an observation that has been weighing on my mind.

There are three books of the Bible that we can tie to Solomon.

Proverbs – Happy, vibrant, bubbly, and often profound

Song of Solomon – Sexy, at least for 950 BC Hebrew love poetry

Ecclesiastes – Despair tinged with nihilism

I am not saying that Solomon was not inspired for the first and last books, but clearly, in spite of his immense intelligence, there was a lot of loss of vibrancy, power and heavenly vision. He didn’t have the Spirit of God in the same way he had.

I will leave it to the interested student to draw a conclusion why.

hint: 300 + 700

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Carter Craft
May 10, 2018

We have to cast our net much wider to understand Solomon’s complex character. After all, he was attributed authorship not only to these books but several other volumes of philosophy, poetry, sorcery, demonology, and riddles.

I confess that I’ve usually taken the idea of Solomonic authorship too lightly, especially in regard to Proverbs, which is certainly one of the most important texts in the Bible.

Zen
May 10, 2018

@Carter
I certainly think we could use a lot more sorcery, demonology and riddles in scripture. I can imagine how introducing practice in Elders Quarom would help with inactive members.

I will let the careful student decide which way it would help it.

Solomon
May 11, 2018

Whoso hath a wife hath a good thing.

MC
May 11, 2018

Can there be too much of a good thing?

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